Discovering the traditional games: digital memory game as knowledge dynamizer in school physical education

Abstract

Introduction: This research thematizes the traditional game in interaction with the digital game based on the problematization: how may the digital game become a pedagogical tool for the teaching and learning of traditional games (TGs) in school Physical Education? Objective: We aim to present the processes used in the construction and development of a digital memory game that thematizes and dynamizes the TGs experienced in Rio Grande do Sul (RS) as a pedagogical tool for school Physical Education. The methodology was developed in two phases: (1) Exploratory phase: through bibliographical research about TGs and digital games; (2) Of execution: subdivided into 4 fundamental steps: a) conception (definition of the general lines of the game); b) planning (game structure and graphic material); c) implementation (development); and d) preliminary testing. Results and discussion: The creation of digital game was carried out from a multidisciplinary work, involving knowledge in the areas of Physical Education, computing and design, which formed the final product entitled “Traditional Games Memory”. Conclusion: This appears as a pedagogical tool that contributes to the school Physical Education by enabling: - know the traditional games that take part in the culture of RS and Brazil; - encourage the insertion and experience of the traditional game as knowledge of school physical education; - strengthen personal and group identity; - provides spaces for joy, sociability, strengthening bonds, learning different motors and cognitive skills and self-knowledge; and fundamentally, experience the fascination that the game exerts and the desire to want to play again.